Do plumbers make more in Bangor or Portland?

Portland pays more: the median is $60,140 in Bangor and $64,500 in Portland, a 7% difference.

Plumber salary in Bangor, ME

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Bangor, ME area earn a median of $60,140 a year, or $28.92 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $77,650. Across all of Maine, the median is $64,000, so Bangor pays 6% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$60,140

Bottom 10% under$42,780Top 10% over$77,650

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $20.57/hr
Jobs in this area: 220
After cost of living: $62,320
Median hourly pay: $28.92/hr
vs U.S. median: −6%
vs Maine median: −6%
Mean (average) pay: $60,060 a year · $28.88 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 12620, Bangor, ME). Excludes self-employed plumbers. Cost of living: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024. *Starting pay is estimated from the 10th percentile; BLS does not report pay by license level.

Pay by percentile

What plumbers in Bangor, ME earn at each point of the pay range, May 2025: 10% earn less than the 10th percentile, half earn less than the median, and 10% earn more than the 90th.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$20.57	$42,780
25th percentile	$24.31	$50,570
Median (50th)	$28.92	$60,140
75th percentile	$34.14	$71,020
90th percentile	$37.33	$77,650

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.

How Bangor, ME compares

Bangor has the lowest plumber median of the 3 Maine metro areas with published pay.
Plumbers hold about the same share of jobs in the Bangor area as nationally: 3.1 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other Maine metro areas

Other trades in Bangor, ME

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Bangor or Portland?: Portland pays more: the median is $60,140 in Bangor and $64,500 in Portland, a 7% difference.

About this data

Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-2152 (Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters), area code 12620 (Bangor, ME). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed plumbers and business owners aren't included. The cost-of-living figure divides the median by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity for 2024 (96.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures